Church of the Resurrection of Christ, Neoclassical church building in Slavkov u Brna, Czech Republic.
The Church of the Resurrection of Christ is a single-nave Classicist hall church with a shallow rectangular presbytery and a prismatic tower with a belfry behind it. Its main facade carries a projecting portico of six columns with Composite capitals, inscribed WENCESL – ANT – PR. A. KAVNITZ – RIETBERG. FECIT. MDCCLXXXIX, topped by a triangular tympanum with Franz Zächerle's relief of the Sending of the Apostles. The nave, 33.5 m long and 17.5 m wide, has a barrel vault lit by lunette windows.
Prince Václav Antonín Dominik Kounic-Rietberg had the church built to replace the Gothic Church of St. James, which partly collapsed in 1757 and was then demolished. The court architect Johann F. Hetzendorf designed it, and construction ran from 1786 to 1789 as an example of Enlightenment church building under the Josephine reforms.
The church keeps three pulpits but uses only the one at the side of the nave, and two marble stoups stand beneath the choir. A wall painting of Christ with the Apostle Peter in the side chapel is by the painter Milivoj Husák, who also designed the white marble main altar consecrated in 1986.
The church stands at the northern end of Palackého náměstí, at the eastern edge of the castle grounds; Komenského náměstí adjoins its east side, and the rear wing with the rectory faces Malinovského street. The church and rectory complex has been listed as a cultural monument since 1958.
The clock mechanism installed in 1907 came from the Brno firm J. Moravus; after a full overhaul it was reinstalled in 2000. The tower also holds bells, among them the oldest, St. John from 1762 and Maria from 1776.
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